# carota
## Catalan
### Etymology

From cara (“face”) +‎ -ota.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kəˈɾɔ.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kaˈɾɔ.ta]

### Noun

carota f (plural carotes)
* grimace
    Synonym: ganyota
* grotesque mask (worn during carnival and other folk festivals)

### Further reading

* “carota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “carota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “carota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “carota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

### Anagrams

* acorat, acotar, actora, atraco, coarta, croata, tocara, tocarà

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈrɔ.ta/
* Rhymes: -ɔta
* Hyphenation: ca‧rò‧ta

### Etymology 1

From Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek κᾰρωτόν (kărōtón).

#### Noun

carota f (plural carote)
* carrot
* core, core sample
* (figurative, colloquial) fib

##### Derived terms

* carotina

#### Adjective

carota (invariable)
* orange-red, carrot

#### Related terms

* carotare
* carotene

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

carota
* inflection of carotare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ carota in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* arcato, carato, caratò, cataro, coarta, corata, croata

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón, “carrot”), a diminutive of κᾰρώ (kărṓ, “caraway”), possibly derived from κάρᾱ (kárā, “head”) or from Pre-Greek. Related to carum.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kaˈroː.ta/, [käˈroːt̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kaˈro.ta/, [käˈrɔːt̪ä]

### Noun

carōta f (genitive carōtae); first declension
* carrot

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Middle French: carotte (see there for further descendants)
* Italian: carota
* Romanian: carotă
* Romansch: carota, carotta
* Sicilian: carrota
** Maltese: carrota
* → Albanian: karotë
* → Polish: karota

### References

* “carota”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* carota in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French carotter.

### Verb

a carota (third-person singular present carotează, past participle carotat) 1st conjugation
* to cheat, to extort

#### Conjugation
## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* carotta (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)

### Etymology

From Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón).

### Noun

carota f (plural carotas)
* (Sutsilvan) carrot

#### Synonyms

* (Rumantsch Grischun) risch melna, (Surmiran, Puter) rischmelna
* (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) riebla
* (Sursilvan) ragisch cotschna

## Spanish
### Etymology

Augmentative of cara (“face”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈɾota/ [kaˈɾo.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -ota
* Syllabification: ca‧ro‧ta

### Noun

carota f (plural carotas)
* (colloquial) facial expression reflecting rejection, dissatisfaction, anger, disapprobation, annoyance, etc.; face
    ¿Por qué vienes con tu carota, quién te hizo enojar?Why do you look annoyed, who made you angry?
    Conté el chiste y la vecina puso su carotaI told the joke and the neighbour showed her annoyed face.

### Noun

carota m (plural carotas)
* cool customer

### Further reading

* “carota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* croata